What are the names of the major divisions within your units?

Your District course outlines may include these questions, sometimes called the over-arching questions if your lessons are in an IFL format.

Which of the five
Areas of Interaction will you focus on during this unit?

What assessment instrument will you use to measure how well your students achieved the standards for this unit?

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Investigation and Experimentation
 (Scientific Method)
CA Standard:
#9 a-g

How do you plan and do a scientific investigation?

How do we test the accuracy and see if the data can be reproduced?

How do we tell the difference between variable and controlled conditions in a test?

How does the student recognize the slope of the linear graph as the constant in the relationship y= kx and be able to interpret graphs constructed from data.
Can they tell the difference between linear and non-linear relationships on a graph of data, and interpret them?
How do you find a missing quantity in a mathematic expression, given the two remaining terms (including speed = distance/time, density = mass/volume, force = pressure × area, volume = area × height)?

Human Ingenuity

Lab Notebook
•Measurement Lab
•Graphing Relationships Lab

Chapter 1 Test: Investigative Methods & Scientific Measurement

Research Projects-standards based - Initial Proposal for Science Project

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Motion
CA Standard:
#1 a-f

Do students know howposition related to a standard reference point

Do students knowthat average speed is the total distance traveled divided by the total time elapsed and that the speed of an object along the path traveled can vary.
Do students knowhow to solve problems involving distance, time, and average speed?

Do students knowthe velocity of an object must be described by specifying both the direction and the speed of the object?

Do students knowchanges in velocity may be due to changes in speed, direction, or both?

Do students knowhow to interpret graphs of position versus time and graphs of speed versus time for motion in a single direction?

Human ingenuity

Lab Notebook
•Graphing Relative Positions
•Measuring Average Speed
•Graphing Motion

Chapter Test: Motion

Research Projects-Revised Proposal for Science Project

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Forces
CA Standard:
#2 a-g

Do students know a force has both direction and magnitude.?

Do students know when an object is subject to two or more forces at once, the result is
the cumulative effect of all the forces.

Do students know when the forces on an object are balanced, the motion of the object does not change.

Do students know that when the forces on an object are unbalanced, the object will change its velocity

Do students know the greater the mass of an object, the more force is needed to achieve the same rate of change in motion.

Do students know the role of gravity in forming and maintaining the shapes of planets, stars, and the solar system?

Environment

Lab Notebook
•Adding Vertical Forces
•Measuring the Force of Friction
•Comparing Mass and Weight

Chapter 2 Test: Force

Research Project - Progress Report on Science Project

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Density and Buoyancy
CA Standard:
#8 a-d

Do students know density is mass/unit volume?

Do students know how to calculate the density of substances (regular and irregular solids and liquids) from measurements of mass and volume?

Do students know the buoyant force on an object in a fluid is an upward force equal to the weight of the fluid the object has displaced?

Do Students know how to predict whether an object will float or sink?

Environment

Lab Notebook
•Calculating Density
•Feeling Buoyant Force
•Temperature and Flotation

Chapter 3 Test: Density and Buoyancy

Poster Presentation on Science Project

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Structure of Matter
CA Standard:
#3 a-f

Are Students familiar with each of the more than 100 elements of matter?
Do students know matter has distinct properties and a distinct atomic structure?
Do students know that all forms of matter are composed of one or more of the elements?

Environment

Lab Notebook
•Particles in an atom
•Building an atom
•Modeling molecules

Chapter 4 Test: Understand the Atom
Chapter 5 Test: How Atoms Form Molecules
Chapter 6 Test: States of Matter

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Periodic Table
CA Standard:
#7 a-c

Do students know that the periodic table is organized based on the properties of the elements and reflects the structure of atoms?

Environment

Lab Notebook
•Guessing the elements
•Explaining half-life

Chapter 7 Test: The Periodic Table

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Reactions
CA Standard:
#5 a-e

Do students know that chemical reactions are processes in which atoms are rearranged into different combinations of molecules?

Environment

Lab Notebook
•Effervescent tablet
•Modeling the burning of methane
•Litmus paper

Chapter 8 Test: Chemical Reactions
Chapter 9 Test: Acids and Bases in Solutions

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Chemistry of Living Systems
CA Standard:
#6 a-c

Do students know the principles of chemistry underlie the functioning of biological systems?

Community and Service

Lab Notebook
•Fat and health
•Polarity and living systems

Chapter 10 Test: Chemistry of Living Systems

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Earth and Solar System
CA Standard:
#4 a-e

Do students know that the structure and composition of the universe can be learned from studying stars and galaxies and their evolution?

Human Ingenuity

Lab Notebook
•Elliptical movement
•Visible moon shapes

Chapter 11 Test: Our Solar System

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Review

Review CA standards 1-9

Review All

CA CST’s
Final Exams - cumulative